[O, ne toskuj po mne! Ja tam, gde net stradan'ja.]1
Zabud' bylykh skorbej muchitel'nye sny...
Pust' budut obo mne tvoi vospominan'ja 
Svetlej, chem pervyj den' vesny.
O, ne toskuj po mne! Mezh nami net razluki:
Ja tak zhe, kak i vstar', dushe tvojej blizka,
Menja po-prezhnemu tvoi [terzajut]2 muki, 
Menja gnetet tvoja toska.
Zhivi! ty dolzhen zhit'. I jesli siloj chuda 
Ty [snova]3 zdes' najdjosh' otradu i pokoj,
To znaj, chto `eto ja otkliknulas' ottuda
Na zov dushi tvojej bol'noj.

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¹ Rachmaninov: "О, не грусти по мне! Я там, где нет страданий"
² Rachmaninov: "волнуют"
³ omitted by Rachmaninov

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Text Authorship:

• by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841 - 1893), "Голос издалека" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Sigizmund Mikhailovich Blumenfel'd (1852 - 1920), "Голос из далека", op. 11 (3 Песни с сопровождением фортепиано (3 Pesni s soprovozhdenijem fortepiano)) no. 3, published 1898 [ high voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
• by Georgy Eduardovich Konyus (1862 - 1933), "Голос издалека", op. 12 (Шесть романсов) no. 5 (1897) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Samuel Moiseyevich Maykapar (1867 - 1938), "О, не тоскуй по мне" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "О, не грусти!", op. 14 (Двенадцать романсов = Dvenadcat' romansov (Twelve songs)) no. 8 (1896) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov (1866 - 1920), "Голос издалека", op. 20 no. 6 (1901) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev (1881 - 1968), "Голос издалека", 1911 [sung text not yet checked]
• by F. A. Zaikin , "Голос издалека" [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• FRE French (Français) (Roseline Kassap-Riefenstahl) , "Oh ne sois pas triste!", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) (Roseline Kassap-Riefenstahl) , "O sei nicht betrübt !", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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